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New Delhi, Mar 15: Washrooms of south Delhi hotels, restaurants and eateries will turn into public toilets from next month, with anyone willing to pay up to Rs 5 getting access to these facilities. Taking this decision, the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) said the move would make more than 4,000 toilets accessible to the public. The civic body said it would enforce the rule by adding a...

Raichur, Mar 14: As many as 14 people were injured in a clash between Scheduled Castes and Kurubas in Kalmala village in Raichur taluk on Monday when a group objected to the other using objectionable language during Holi celebrations. The injured have been shifted to the District General Hospital in Raichur where their condition is said to be out of danger. Raichur Rural Police, who rushed to the...

Bengaluru, Mar 14: Three persons from Ramky Infrastructure Ltd. were arrested on Monday in connection with the death of three people while repairing a manhole at Kaggadasapura. K. Babu Reddy, Assistant General Manager (Projects), Ramky Infrastructure Ltd. and in-charge of their projects in Bengaluru, Vemula Anjaneyulu, a sub-contractor hired by the company, and N.T. Reddy, Manager (Projects), were...

Panaji, Mar 13: AAP expected to make a big splash in Goa, but it lost its deposit on all but one of the 39 seats it contested in the state. The sole exception was the Benaulim seat where Royla Fernandes polled 4,182 votes and finished second.

Mar 12: It's time to have a blast with colours, but experts have a word of caution about the chemicals that hide in the air. A fourth of Holi revellers in Kolkata end up with skin blisters, rashes and even burns that take months to heal. This is due to the high chemical content and harmful dyes that are often used to impart indelible marks that can't be easily washed away with soap. Lighter...

London, Mar 12: Scientists have found that the most toxic elements from radioactive nuclear waste may be 'fished out' using arsenic molecules - a breakthrough that could make the alternative energy industry safer and more effective. Researchers reported the first examples of thorium with multiple bonds to arsenic to exist under ambient conditions on multi-gram scales where before they had only...

Mar 12: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) registered a landslide victory in Uttar Pradesh (UP) and Uttarakhand, capturing significant space in Manipur where it had no presence while Goa remains close. But, as expected, the Akali Dal-BJP alliance lost Punjab where it had already served two terms and faced anti-incumbency owing to drug menace, arms traffic and arbitrary police and general...

Karimnagar, Mar 12: The Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will soon be tying up with local cable network operators in Telangana to provide broadband services to its customers. "We have already tied up our broadband services with some of the local cable operators in Warangal district successfully. By May 2017 we will tie up with private cable operators in Karimnagar too," BSNL AP Circle Chief...

Washington, Mar 10: India's first unmanned mission to the moon- Chandrayaan 1- which was believed lost, is still orbiting the moon, say NASA scientists. The Chandrayaan-1, which cost $79 million, was launched in 2008 to map the moon's surface and look for precious metals. It was assigned a two-year mission. Scientists at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) lost contact with Chandrayaan-1...

Los Angeles, Mar 8: Scientists have developed a 'nanodote' - a low-cost, molecular gel to counter deadly snake bites more effectively than existing anti-venoms, an advance that may save thousands of lives in rural parts of India. Worldwide, an estimated 4.5 million people are bitten annually, 2.7 million suffer crippling injuries and more than 100,000 die, most of them farmworkers and children in...